Someone, anyone, HELP!

Things are getting worse. Do-gooders in Greece are making things worse. So are do-baders, but no-one expects them to do any better.

Someone please guard Greeks from their law-makers!

And please, God, someone, anyone, shut their ministers up and keep them away from f*&^% TELEVISION.

In the three months since the country went unofficially bust,

* unemployment has risen by 45% mostly because a new labour law outlaws all flexible labour and introduces labour union control on recruitment;

* government induced inflation (increase in petrol tax and VAT) is running at 4,5%;

* buying power has fallen further by about 11% for all civil servants, due to pay cuts;

* the ministers seem to follow their own personal route, each supremely unaware of, or uninterested in, what the other is doing;

* the ministers and other politicians still spend much of their mornings on morning shows on television, supporting their individual campaigns and common party lines;

* taxation is so volatile that it changes by the month; on the other hand, all agree that:

• growth is the only way out of this tunnel, and,
• investment is the road to growth
  

* No one seems to notice that, legally speaking, Greek lawmakers do not welcome investments; only investors' money.

* the Prime Minister is... out there somewhere, supremely unaware of what's going on?;

Nothing, not the country’s debt, not the IMF, nothing seems to deter Greece’s ruling political classes from pursuing their personal ends and individual gain. Even now.

They are keeping the hood on the state run and champion loss-making Organisation of Greek Railways ("OSE" which services an unimpressive 25% of the country’s territory) which thereby continues its own “creative” operating style, losing a cool €: 1 bill / annum.

They are sending out "control teams" from the labour authorities to impose fines at will and whim -- or receive kickbacks instead;

They are complicating bureaucracy so as to make absolute conformity impossible: to whit, in order to operate as a temp agency one needs a license. In order to obtain a license one needs to operate an agency.

And, best of all, the Greek government has officially stopped all tax returns and VAT returns and other payments. BUT, for payments due, it does not accept clearance and charges 1.5% interest / month.

So it is time to ask for help from those not vested with political power in Greece but still interested in the country's fate.

The country's creditors, perhaps? In Greece, now more than ever, money talks!